Serious investment thinking that doesn’t take itself too seriously.
Our contributors go back in time to look at how trends in property investment have been affected by economic history – and vice versa
While there is evidence that the wives of Musselburgh fishermen played in a golf competition in 1811, the first ladies’ golf club was formed at St Andrews in 1867, where they played with one club on what is now known as the Himalayas putting green. England soon followed suit with early ladies’...
This article was originally published in August 2018. Our archaeologists excavated Ten Trinity Square beside the Tower of London, as part of the development of a luxury hotel and...
Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) the radical nineteenth-century businessman and politician who terrified Queen Victoria and many others, is back in the news again. The man who...
Over the last 200 years railways have had a profound effect on the areas they serve – opening them up to trade and passenger transport. The busiest passenger station in the world...
Recent data from the Office of National Statistics and HM Land registry show that house prices rose 3% in the year to May 2018, relative to a growth of 3.5 percent in the same...
Recently, the giant British multinational facilities management and construction company Carillion recently faced compulsory liquidation- a court-based procedure through which...
In the latest in a series of extracts from America Inc: The 400-year history of American capitalism Bhu Srinivasan recounts how the transformation of American roads led to the...
What the Panic of 1890 can teach us.
How the colleges of Oxford adapted to changes in the 19th, 20th and now 21st centuries.
How colleges stabilised their income between 1500 and 1850.